I've never had a crestie take anything but a cricket and rarely from tongs as well. I would suggest changing your schedule and feeding a few hours after it "wakes up" by putting a few dusted/gutloaded crickets in the bottom of the enclosure. If you have enough leaves and cover it can be fun to watch, but sometimes it does take the crestie a bit to find all the insects, so give them the time - overnight is fine if they otherwise have a good feeding response. I can count on one hand the number of times a cricket has lived through the night and been left in the morning - but for us it isn't worth pulling it out as we have a very dense enclosures and if the cricket gets too close to one particular crestie it doesn't live through the day... actually that's about the only thing that wakes that girl up! Otherwise the cricket is usually eaten for "breakfast."
How many crickets do you usually feed one at any given time?
Originally Posted by sleepygeckos
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